Purchases Setup

Purchases Setup

Setup defines the supplier and purchasing defaults that procurement transactions depend on. Good setup reduces price errors, approval delays, and matching exceptions.

Setup areas

  • Supplier master records and contact data.
  • Supplier purchasing data for item-level vendor defaults.
  • Payment terms, tax groups, and payables accounts.
  • Reorder levels and replenishment-related defaults for bought items.
  • Agreement, RFQ, and vendor pricing data where those features are enabled.

Key pages

Recommended setup order

  1. Create Suppliers and maintain reliable contact and payment information.
  2. Link items to supplier purchasing data so descriptions, prices, and conversion factors are available.
  3. Review reorder levels and replenishment settings for purchased stock items.
  4. Add vendor pricing, sourcing, and agreement controls for items that need strategic procurement.

Setup advice

  • Keep supplier purchasing data current; procurement users should not be retyping default commercial data on every order.
  • Decide early which purchases must follow requisition, RFQ, or agreement rules and which can remain simple PO or direct invoice flows.